Pu-erh · Pu'er, Yunnan, China
Sheng Pu-erh
Moderate caffeine
Raw pu-erh, young and alive: bright bitterness, orchard fruit and camphor, made to be aged or drunk on its nerve.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 88 °C · 190 °F
- Leaf
- 5 g
- Water
- 180 ml
- First steep
- 1:00
- Each next steep
- +0:20
- Steeps
- 6
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
green plum · camphor · mountain honey
Tasting notes
brisk · evolving · mineral
Harvest
March–May
Making
Plucking 
Firing 
Rolling 
Sorting
Origin
Yunnan Highlands · China
In Yunnan the tropic brings the sun and altitude brings the cool nights. The big leaf takes its time to thicken.
Lore
Sheng is pu-erh as the caravans knew it: sun-dried leaf pressed for the road, changing slowly for decades. Young, it bites and blooms; aged, it settles into the cellar-calm its ripe sibling reaches by shortcut.
